While the COVID-19 pandemic spurred significant progress in expanding rural home internet access, these gains are proving temporary as resources dwindle.
It’s not an issue where they have a drop at the end of your property and you just need to trench it to your home. They don’t have service anywhere close to you. A farmer wouldn’t be able to navigate the permits to dig up a bunch of land owned by people and local government or strong wires across.
Wouldn’t be the first time some folks out in the wild spaces found ways to make it happen though. A bit more a trick when you have considerations like maximum distance runs for cables and such, but not impossible.
Not missing just saying it wouldn’t be the first time people in the wilds took things into their own hands to fix a problem.
Also though, ‘somebody’ has to take the extra lengths and costs, a company, tax pool, individuals, etc. Unless they’re hiding some crazy mutated spiders that spin Ethernet cables out their rear someone has to put up the time and cash for the infrastructure.
Rural does not mean farmers.
It’s not an issue where they have a drop at the end of your property and you just need to trench it to your home. They don’t have service anywhere close to you. A farmer wouldn’t be able to navigate the permits to dig up a bunch of land owned by people and local government or strong wires across.
That’s fair, I didn’t consider that not everyone is a farmer.
…is that you, dad?
Wouldn’t be the first time some folks out in the wild spaces found ways to make it happen though. A bit more a trick when you have considerations like maximum distance runs for cables and such, but not impossible.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/barbed-wire-telephone-lines-homesteaders-prairie-america-history
You’re missing the point. No one should need to go to any extra lengths or cost to get internet access.
Not missing just saying it wouldn’t be the first time people in the wilds took things into their own hands to fix a problem.
Also though, ‘somebody’ has to take the extra lengths and costs, a company, tax pool, individuals, etc. Unless they’re hiding some crazy mutated spiders that spin Ethernet cables out their rear someone has to put up the time and cash for the infrastructure.